The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1887-06-11
Correspondence Baltimore County Union.
LETTER FROM BALTIMORE.
Newspapers Of the Olden Time-Too Much
Trash in the Present Day-Shorter
Hours Asked for-Purging the
Registration Lists, Sc, sc.
BALTIMORE, June 9TH, 1887.

BALTIMORE, June 18th, 1887.
Messrs. Editors How the custom has changed
in reference to the publication of newspapers
especially dailies-now to what it was some years
ago. I remember very well when the American,
owned by Messrs Dobbn, Murphy & Bros, the
Chronicle, by Messrs. Barnes d Poe, and the Ga
zette, edited by VIM. Gwinn, ESQ.,, each issued in
the morning, generally went to press at 10 to ii
o'clock at night without waiting for the latest news
If it came, well and good, but if not it was pub
lished the next day. Part of that time was before
telegraphs were in use and when news from Europe
did not arrive oftener than once every two weeks
and occasionally not once month. So it was
with news from other parts of the world The
people, however, seemed satisfied and appeared to
get along as well as they do now. They had an
abundance to eat and drink and wear. They did
not deal in millions encourage great syndicates
which gobble up millions for railroads, putting
these into few hands, making them rich beyond
their real necessities and the poor more numerous
and poorer. Such fear it will be so long as the
same system is fostered. Why should the Wander
bilts, Jay Gould and a few others have their hun
dreds of millions when thousands are in compar-
alive poverty, finding it difficult to make an hon
est living? So it is, however, and presume will
continue to be until necessity makes it other
wise. We are living in a somewhat fast age and
many seem not to have time enough in a short life
to make as much as their desires crave. If they
could take it with them to the other world and
continue enjoying it there it would be another
thing, but Of that they certainly have no guaran-
tee. So then their only hope is that those who
live on this earth after they have gone will be able
for short time to enjoy what their progenitors
have left behind. Such seems to be the end of the
whole matter. We then are somewhat like the
imperceptible animacules of the water, one living
upon the other, whilst the larger ones-the big
water devil as it is called-s constantly eating up
kl,oo 1Iar md Hod nnr itc
hunger satated. Such really seems the way of
the world.
remember very we'll when the editors of news
papers would not publish one half the matter that
now finds its way into the columns of the press,
not if they had basket full of it written out and
offered for nothing. 1t takes more time now to
read the heading of matters in the local columns
of the newspapers than they are worth. If fly
slips up and breaks its back it is in the papers the
next day. Such literature has really but little
solid virtue and we can get along easily without
it. Such q publication as Addison's Spectator,
published some hundred years ago, was really
more interesting and instructive than our daily
newspapers of to-day with their filled columns
much of it-of local trash, not fit to be treasured
in memory nor even to be read 1t feeds on ap-
petite too gross to be either useful palatable,
doing more harm than good. l hope our journals
will exercise discretion in such matters and pub
lish nothing that will not have beneficial ten
when they come to the freside of their own homes.
The world got along very we'll before without them.
We like to see things abreast Of the times-.espe-
cially the public press-but occasionally they get
beyond, and this is done in publishing now such
news of trivial character than people want or is
necessary to be made public. History repeats it
self, so do ages, as long ago when the world fell
into what is called "the dark ages" and it requir-
ed great struggle with ignorance to regain what
was lost. So may it be again in the course of
ages. Who knows what is in the future good
thing is not to 1--we toe fast, th@t can inn
prove instead of retrograde. Give every one
chance to do right if they will This is the true
system.
1 am very glad to see that Collector Groome ad-
vocates the proposition to have the office hours for
those in his department extend only to three
o'clock in the day, heretofore, than four in the
afternoon. 1t shows the Collector is in favor of
giving his clerks, or those of the government I'M
der him, proper recreation, which is not only well
for their health but also conducive to a certain
amount of pleasure. 1 suppose the Collector him
self will soon be taking summer trip somewhere,
for he has certainly been very attentive and close
ly confined to his official duties for the past year
or more.
Judge Duffy has stricken thirty more names
from the registered list of voters. This is eminent
ly right. There is nothing more sacred than
mans right of franchise, and no power should be
what party. If such right be trifed with the cleo
tion becomes farce. Men can have no respect
for it or persons chosen to Office by fraud. Peo-
pie become disguised and have no respect for
those thus elected. Those found out attempting
to defraud or swindle the ballot-box should be
surely and strongly punished and be forever after
deprived of the sacred privilege of voting. Such
person should have no rights as politician nor
say in what his country purposes doing at cleo
tons.
Cardinal Gibbons given a grand reception
to-day on his return from Rome. There was
full turnout. 1t was highly complimentary and
fully merited.
1 see that Hon. George Cotton has been making
some very effective speeches recently on the inde-
pendent Democratic side, which goes for pure
ballot-box and fair count. He is candidate
for the Legislature from the second district of Bal
timore, where he lives. He goes simply for what
every honest man should approve-an honest cleo
ton, no matter which party wins.
There have been an unprecedented number of
immigrants come to this country, landing at New
York, Baltimore and other points this year up to
the present time, more than ever before. We have
q big country and room enough for those of them
who are honest, but those not so should be requir-
ed to go back again soon as possible. They can
do us no good but much harm. If this class con-
tinues to increase much more there may be trou-
BILE in the course of time.
Hon. John A. J. Creswel, former Postmaster
General and an ex-member of the Cabinet, has re-
Gently been interviewed politics, but he says he
has had no time to attend to them. He is still a
staunch Republican and is living in hopes that
the Republicans will elect their next President,
though he believes it will be close rub.
The Confederate Memorial Day was observed
yesterday, when the graves in different cemeteries
were visited by those who were their friends and
relatives. 1t was an occasion of special solemnity
and becoming beauty. NEsroR-